The AI Agent Team Blueprint — Build a 5-Agent Revenue Squad

One agent is a tool. Five agents working together is a business.

This blueprint shows you how to build a multi-agent team where each agent has a specialized role, its own personality, its own model tier, and its own lane of execution.

What you get:

• Team Architecture — Orchestrator (brain) + specialists (muscle). Who does what and why.
• 5 Agent SOUL.md Templates — Content Engine, Sales Agent, Deal Scanner, Crypto Trader, Vertical Specialist. Each with role, responsibilities, rules, personality.
• Model Routing Strategy — Opus for strategy, Sonnet for content, Haiku for everything else. Save 80% on API costs.
• Delegation Patterns — How the orchestrator spawns sub-agents, tracks results, and routes tasks
• Cost Optimization — Dual routing (free Claude Max for interactive, OpenRouter for background). Budget tracking. Per-agent cost analysis.
• Cron Architecture — 11 automated jobs: health checks, sales monitoring, memory consolidation, content scheduling, cost reporting
• Communication Protocol — How agents report to the orchestrator. Chain of command. Escalation rules.

Built from the actual Operation Talon team that runs 6 agents, 11 crons, and made first revenue in 8 days.

This is not theory. These are the actual files from a production multi-agent system.